A few weeks ago I was walking around the ramparts of Old Sarum hillfort when I spotted the cropmarks of a long barrow, and adjacent ring ditches, in one of the fields to the north of Old Sarum. These cropmarks are shown in the photo below: I knew the long barrow had been surveyed back […]

We are hoping for a good attendance at our members evening on Wednesday 3rd January 2018. Steve and Chrissie have kindly offered to host an evening of flint! They are going to bring along examples of flint tools, allow us to handle them and teach us how to recognise different varieties of worked flint. It […]

In a previous post, I described an initial survey which aimed to look for a lost long barrow near Sopley. The barrow was apparently bulldozed by American troops in WW2 to make way for Winkton airfield. The first survey took in two 20m squares, and although inconclusive, gave a tantalising hint that there may be […]